The deadly Mother’s club
Re-posted from mother of two.
Marie Claire magazine featured an article in its May 2007 edition about a certain mother’s club that exists in Japan. This club supposedly is composed of mothers within a community. Membership to the club is believed to be essential to one’s child’s success in school and in the community with regards to access to opportunity. Apparently, membership comes with opened doors to good schools and good services. Much like being in a high school clique.
It is a difficult task to get accepted into the club. One must be deemed acceptable by the members of the club and especially approved by the boss mom. One’s manners, clothes, income, friends, way of life is scrutinized and judged. Once a member, mothers have to behave, dress, walk, talk, and live according to the club’s defined standards which are mostly dependent on the club’s boss mom. Going against the group is social suicide.
Which is why many mothers are pressured into doing things they normally would not do just to be accepted to such an exclusive organization. Many would kill just to belong. Which is what happened one school day for two schoolchildren in Japan - Wakana Takemoto and Jin Sano, both aged five. Their classmate’s mother was supposed to drive them to kindergarten class but later on was killed by the same mother. And this is because the “mother’s club” failed to accept her for reasons we could only surmise.
It is sad how such things could lead to depression and eventually murder. It is sadder to think that truly the victims are the children who are very young to understand such pressures that their parents have to contend with.
This kind of clique is not exclusive to Japan. It exists in many communities around the world. It exists here in our country, maybe not as evident but then it does exist and we as responsible parents should ensure that we take care not to get our children entangled in such adult intricacies.
After all, they are the future - we should ensure they live to enjoy it.
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